FACE TO FACE - History of engagement ring

In prehistoric times people have not yet knowing how improvise a garment, already knew that it is necessary to decorate. The first people on earth feel that the decoration is providing it to others, acting as a mark of distinction. In African tribes, retained still primitive patterns, ornaments of bone, metal, stones can be like stars on the epaulets, about belonging to a particular tribe, the position in the tribe, about the merits and virtues.
A woman wearing earrings, bracelets, beads, can show whether it is to create a family.The ring is under an obligation to their birth, most likely, ancient Egyptian civilization - a time when arts and crafts has become a real art. Ring immediately became familiar privileged position. They were those who were given the power - pharaohs.
To the ancient Greeks, the ring was a sign of high birth. Such is the significance of the ring and was at the dawn of Roman Empire. Later, the Romans popularity among all kinds of decorations has increased so much that the ring had become a secular adornment. Emperor August authorized to wear the ring physicians, and Septimius Severus in 197 a year. e. - The soldiers. In the I century Mr. e. the civil laws of the Roman Empire to the marriage it was enough to oral or written agreement of two parties - the groom and the bride's parents. The agreement sets out when the groom presented the bride's parents iron ring. Since then, the girl left the ranks of candidates for the bride and the de jure status of his wife received.
For the lawyer in Ancient Rome, the contract of marriage, the so-called futuratum, with delivery of the ring was of paramount importance. Needless wedding there just to put in prominence the public that the two will now be one entity.
Interestingly Hebraic tradition: the groom presented the bride a ring instead of coins, as we did previously, in a sign that takes men's obligation to take care of the future financial well-being of his wife.